Two genes encoding protein kinases of the HstK family are involved in synthesis of the minor heterocyst-specific glycolipid in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120.

abstract：:S1 nuclease mapping and Northern (RNA) hybridization revealed that the rpoDA gene encoding the principal sigma subunit of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 is transcribed as a monocistronic mRNA of 2 kb and that the transcription from the rpoDA promoter (PC) starts 32 bases upstream from the first nucleotide of the initiati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujita M,Tanaka K,Takahashi H,Amemura A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late log-phase Escherichia coli B/r cells are 1.6 times more sensitive to killing by X rays than are stationary-phase cells when grown in Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) + glucose. The number of single-chain breaks formed per krad is the same for log- and stationary-phase cells. Stationary-phase cells show a somewhat great...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Town CD,Smith KC,Kaplan HS

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method consisting of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequent detection of endoglucanases by blotting with a polyclonal antibody against endoglucanase I was used to investigate the effect of induction and carbon catabolite derepression on the synthesis of multiple forms of endoglucana...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Messner R,Gruber F,Kubicek CP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the mechanism of osmotic stress adaptation (osmoregulation) in Agrobacterium tumefaciens biotype I (salt-tolerant) and biotype II (salt-sensitive) strains. Using natural-abundance 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we identified all organic solutes that accumulated to significant levels ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith LT,Smith GM,Madkour MA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzoyl coenzyme A (benzoyl-CoA) reductase is a key enzyme in the anaerobic metabolism of aromatic compounds catalyzing the ATP-driven reductive dearomatization of benzoyl-CoA. The enzyme from Thauera aromatica uses a reduced 2[4Fe-4S] ferredoxin as electron donor. In this work, we identified 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dörner E,Boll M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is a human pathogen that produces lethal septicemia in susceptible persons, and the primary virulence factor for this organism is capsular polysaccharide (CPS). The role of the capsule in V. vulnificus biofilms was examined under a variety of conditions, by using either defined CPS mutants or spontan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joseph LA,Wright AC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclases (ACs) catalyze the formation of 3',5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP) from ATP. A novel AC-encoding gene, cyaC, was isolated from Rhizobium etli by phenotypic complementation of an Escherichia coli cya mutant. The functionality of the cyaC gene was corroborated by its ability to restore cAMP accumulation in an E....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Téllez-Sosa J,Soberón N,Vega-Segura A,Torres-Márquez ME,Cevallos MA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific changes in the chemical and microbial composition of Thermoanaerobium brockii fermentations were compared and related to alterations of process rates, end product yields, and growth parameters. Fermentation of starch as compared with glucose was associated with significant decreases in growth rate and intrace...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ben-Bassat A,Lamed R,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membranes of Escherichia coli K-12 cells carrying a derepressed F-like R factor contain about 7 times 10-4 molecules per cell of a protein similar to the subunit of the sex pili specified by the R factor. This protein pool is absent in cells carrying the repressed variant of the R factor. The size of the poo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beard JP,Connolly JC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strong repression of inducible synthesis of the enzymes of fatty acid degradation by glucose can be partially relieved by the addition of cyclic adenosine 3',5' monophosphate (cyclic AMP) to the growth medium. This reversal of the glucose effect by cyclic AMP is not observed in a mutant (K29) that is unable to gro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pauli G,Ehring R,Overath P

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If bacteria are incapable of forming and incorporating proteins into the cytoplasmic membranes in all phases of the cell cycle, then not all cells from an asynchronous culture should be capable of growth when switched to a new carbon and energy source whose metabolism requires new membrane function. The transfer of an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koch AL

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand further the role of the flagellum of Vibrio anguillarum in virulence, invasive and adhesive properties of isogenic motility mutants were analyzed by using a chinook salmon embryo cell line. Adhesion was unaffected but invasion of the cell line was significantly decreased in nonmotile or partially motile ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ormonde P,Hörstedt P,O'Toole R,Milton DL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehalogenases are key enzymes in the metabolism of halo-organic compounds. This paper describes a systematic approach to the isolation and molecular analysis of two families of bacterial alpha-halocarboxylic acid (alphaHA) dehalogenase genes, called group I and group II deh genes. The two families are evolutionarily u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hill KE,Marchesi JR,Weightman AJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication initiator proteins in bacteria not only allow DNA replication but also often regulate the rate of replication initiation as well. The regulation is mediated by limiting the synthesis or availability of initiator proteins. The applicability of this principle is demonstrated here for RctB, the replication in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pal D,Venkova-Canova T,Srivastava P,Chattoraj DK

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence obtained with an improved in vivo assay of fimbrial phase variation in Escherichia coli supported a revised understanding of the roles of fimB and fimE in the site-specific DNA rearrangement with which they are associated. A previously proposed model argued that fimB and fimE play antagonistic, unidirectional...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McClain MS,Blomfield IC,Eisenstein BI

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic search for motifs associated with CcrM DNA methylation sites revealed four long (>100-bp) motifs (CIR sequences) present in up to 21 copies in Caulobacter crescentus. The CIR1 and CIR2 motifs exhibit a conserved inverted repeat organization, with a CcrM site in the center of one of the repeats. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen SL,Shapiro L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:sigma B of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis is an alternative transcription factor activated by a variety of environmental stresses, including the stress imposed upon entry into the stationary growth phase. Previous reports have shown that this stationary-phase activation is enhanced when cells are grown ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wise AA,Price CW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant pool of organic matter on earth is derived from the biological reduction and assimilation of carbon dioxide gas, catalyzed primarily by the enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO). By virtue of its capacity to use molecular oxygen as an alternative and competing gaseous substra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watson GM,Yu JP,Tabita FR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial lysis induced by the expression of the cloned lysis gene of the RNA bacteriophage MS2 in Escherichia coli was shown to be under the same regulatory control mechanisms as penicillin-induced lysis. It was controlled by the stringent response and showed the phenomenon of tolerance when E. coli was grown at pH 5...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Walderich B,Ursinus-Wössner A,van Duin J,Höltje JV

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycolic acids are a key component of the mycobacterial cell wall, providing structure and forming a major permeability barrier. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis mycolic acids are synthesized by type I and type II fatty acid synthases. One of the enzymes of the type II system is encoded by fabG1. We demonstrate here that ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parish T,Roberts G,Laval F,Schaeffer M,Daffé M,Duncan K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant cell wall, which consists of a highly complex array of interconnecting polysaccharides, is the most abundant source of organic carbon in the biosphere. Microorganisms that degrade the plant cell wall synthesize an extensive portfolio of hydrolytic enzymes that display highly complex molecular architectures. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DeBoy RT,Mongodin EF,Fouts DE,Tailford LE,Khouri H,Emerson JB,Mohamoud Y,Watkins K,Henrissat B,Gilbert HJ,Nelson KE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotransformation frequencies of 16, 39, 51, and 60% were observed when donor alleles were separated by distances of 9.2, 7.4, 6.3, and 5.1 kb, respectively, in donor Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DNA. A different and unexpected pattern was observed when the distance between recipient alleles was reduced from 9.2 to 5.1 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kloos DU,DiMarco AA,Elsemore DA,Timmis KN,Ornston LN

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehalogenases play key roles in the detoxification of halogenated aromatics. Interestingly, only one hydrolytic dehalogenase for halogenated aromatics, 4-chlorobenzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) dehalogenase, has been reported. Here, we characterize another novel hydrolytic dehalogenase for a halogenated aromatic compound from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang G,Li R,Li S,Jiang J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ADP-ribosylating toxin named Aeromonas salmonicida exoenzyme T (AexT) in A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida, the etiological agent of furunculosis in fish, was characterized. Gene aexT, encoding toxin AexT, was cloned and characterized by sequence analysis. AexT shows significant sequence similarity to the ExoS and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Braun M,Stuber K,Schlatter Y,Wahli T,Kuhnert P,Frey J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel mutant of the marine oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2, containing a mini-Tn5 transposon disrupting a "tesB-like" acyl-coenzyme A (CoA) thioesterase gene, was found to hyperproduce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), resulting in the extracellular deposition of this biotechnologically important poly...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sabirova JS,Ferrer M,Lünsdorf H,Wray V,Kalscheuer R,Steinbüchel A,Timmis KN,Golyshin PN

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA of various Rhizobium galegae strains representing different geographical origins, and taxonomic divergence was digested with three restriction enzymes separately, Southern blotted, and hybridized with six heterologous probes. The sequence divergences for different pairwise comparisons were calculated from pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaijalainen S,Lindström K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age-dependent lectin-binding ability of Rhizobium trifolii 0403 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) was examined by following the development of the capsule and its ability to interact with the white clover lectin trifoliin A. Bacteria grown on agar plates for 3, 5, 7, 14, and 21 days were examined by electron microscop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sherwood JE,Vasse JM,Dazzo FB,Truchet GL

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-binding factor BifA (previously called VF1) binds upstream of the developmentally regulated site-specific recombinase gene xisA in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. Besides binding xisA, BifA also binds the glnA, rbcL, and nifH promoter regions. DNase I footprint analysis of BifA binding to glnA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramasubramanian TS,Wei TF,Golden JW

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the human diarrheal disease cholera, is a motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum. Motility has been implicated as a virulence determinant in some animal models of cholera, but the relationship between motility and virulence has not yet been clearly defined. We have begun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klose KE,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Pupylation is a posttranslational modification peculiar to actinobacteria wherein proteins are covalently modified with a small protein called the prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein (Pup). Like ubiquitination in eukaryotes, this phenomenon has been associated with proteasome-mediated protein degradation in m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Compton CL,Fernandopulle MS,Nagari RT,Sello JK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00